Off-Duty: Chicago policeman William Sherrod (right) wore his service revolver as he helped a friend, the Reverend Edward Dixon, cut grass in front of his home in a white neighborhood. Mr. Dixon, a Cook County Hospital chaplain, recently purchased the house.

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Off-Duty: Chicago policeman William Sherrod (right) wore his service revolver as he helped a friend, the Reverend Edward Dixon, cut grass in front of his home in a white neighborhood. Mr. Dixon, a Cook County Hospital chaplain, recently purchased the house.
Off-Duty: Chicago policeman William Sherrod (right) wore his service revolver as he helped a friend, the Reverend Edward Dixon, cut grass in front of his home in a white neighborhood. Mr. Dixon, a Cook County Hospital chaplain, recently purchased the house.
DateAugust 1963
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto
DimensionsOverall: 5 1/4 × 8 1/2 in. (13.3 × 21.6 cm) Image: 5 1/4 × 8 1/2 in. (13.3 × 21.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2022.15.266
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Provenance 2022: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art)
Markings Verso, center top (black stamp): "NOTICE / This picture is the property of the Assosiated Press and may be used only for the purposes of / reproduction when authorized by the owner. It may / not be syndicated, rented or loaned, or used for / advertising purposes or for the purposes of trade, / The following credit must be printed under / each reproduction of this picture: / ASSOCIATED PRESS / WIREPHOTO / REG U.S. PATENT OFFICE"
Verso, center right edge (blue stamp): "ENGRAVING / 1963 AUG 22 AM 8:51"
Verso, bottom center: "2 AUG 22 1963 S"
Verso, bottom center (adhered cutout): "OFF-DUTY --- Chicago policeman William Sherrod (right) / wore his service revolver as he helped a friend, the Rev. / Edward Dixon cut grass in front of his home in a white / neighborhood. Mr. Dixon, a Cook County Hospital chap- / plain, recently purchased the house."
Inscribed Verso, upper left: "CVL-IL-152" and "2000"
Verso, upper left (red ink): "Negros (crossed out) -Chicago"
Verso, upper right: "4COLX 2 1/2"
Dr. King Leads Off Second Lap: Dr. Martin Luther King, extreme right, civil rights leader, strides out of camp near Selma, Alabama, as his protest march started its second lap. Next to King is SNCC Chairman John Lewis. A soldier ordered to duty along with several thousand troops to guard the marchers, stands with rifle along the roadside. The marchers are aiming for the State Capitol at Montgomery.
Dr. King Leads Off Second Lap: Dr. Martin Luther King, extreme right, civil rights leader, strides out of camp near Selma, Alabama, as his protest march started its second lap. Next to King is SNCC Chairman John Lewis. A soldier ordered to duty along with several thousand troops to guard the marchers, stands with rifle along the roadside. The marchers are aiming for the State Capitol at Montgomery.
Date: March 22, 1965
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.277
South East View of Cathedral of St. John's, Antigua. To the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of this Diocese. This Print is respectfully inscribed by his Lordship's most obedient humble servant.
South East View of Cathedral of St. John's, Antigua. To the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of this Diocese. This Print is respectfully inscribed by his Lordship's most obedient humble servant.
Thomas Picken
Date: published [c. 1845]
Medium: Lithograph on board
Object number: 1973.5
Amphibious Operation in Vietnam: up to his helmet in water but careful to keep his weapon and pack dry, a South Vietnam soldier struggled to regain his footing on a creek crossing during a major operation against the Communist Viet Cong recently in the Darlac Plateau area, about 160 miles northeast of Saigon. The sortie was carried out in heavy rain and through thick jungles in an effort to root out Communist guerrillas
Amphibious Operation in Vietnam: up to his helmet in water but careful to keep his weapon and pack dry, a South Vietnam soldier struggled to regain his footing on a creek crossing during a major operation against the Communist Viet Cong recently in the Darlac Plateau area, about 160 miles northeast of Saigon. The sortie was carried out in heavy rain and through thick jungles in an effort to root out Communist guerrillas
Horst Faas
Date: 1962
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.125
The 9th Precinct office investigation unit with Lieutenant Edward Manet is the very building that Kojak uses in his TV series, NYC
The 9th Precinct office investigation unit with Lieutenant Edward Manet is the very building that Kojak uses in his TV series, NYC
Leonard Freed
Date: 1978
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.152
© Leonard Freed. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinto…
On a warm July day neighborhood children play in a patrol car. At another time, an officer reminisced about wintry midnight tours, about the isolation he felt in the patrol car. Night after night he drove the same streets saw the same drunks, homeless ones, addicts, whom he had to move on, clearing the street. He had his anxieties. What, he wondered, would he do if one night they were gone? Whom would he talk to?, from the series "Police Work"
Leonard Freed
Date: 1976
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2017.22.35
United States Marine Corp boot camp: a recruit that has fallen off a rope is made to stand by himself in front of his buddies, for discipline.
United States Marine Corp boot camp: a recruit that has fallen off a rope is made to stand by himself in front of his buddies, for discipline.
Burk Uzzle
Date: 1967
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.258
To Major Hare. of the 12th Light Dragoons. This view of the Bay & Town of St. Pierre is Inscribed by his Sincere and Obliged Friend, Cooper Willyams
To Major Hare. of the 12th Light Dragoons. This view of the Bay & Town of St. Pierre is Inscribed by his Sincere and Obliged Friend, Cooper Willyams
Cooper Willyams
Date: published August 1, 1796
Medium: Aquatint
Object number: 1981.1.1
Photography by David Revette.
Sir John Herschel, plate 11 from the album "Alfred, Lord Tennyson and his Friends"
Julia Margaret Cameron
Date: 1867 (published 1893)
Medium: Photogravure, mounted on matboard
Object number: 1990.6
Madman in the straw: "a sinister corridor. From behind heavy doors escape the repulsive groans and sickening odors of the mad vomiters doing a cure of disgust (on cheap wine). Behind the last door, a premature madman, naked in the straw. I photographed him through the thick murky glass of his spyhole, licked again and again, without seeing anything (reflex cameras didn't exist at the time). At 2 am, I finally convince the charming head doctor, worn down by my arguments, to let me take the picture in my own way", Psychiatric hospital
Madman in the straw: "a sinister corridor. From behind heavy doors escape the repulsive groans and sickening odors of the mad vomiters doing a cure of disgust (on cheap wine). Behind the last door, a premature madman, naked in the straw. I photographed him through the thick murky glass of his spyhole, licked again and again, without seeing anything (reflex cameras didn't exist at the time). At 2 am, I finally convince the charming head doctor, worn down by my arguments, to let me take the picture in my own way", Psychiatric hospital
Jean-Philippe Charbonnier
Date: 1954
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.198
Comedian Dick Gregory (white suit-center) leaves wagon that brought him from House of Correction for court appearance here. Gregory was arrested August 12 during demonstration protesting construction of mobile classroom site. He was charged with disorderly conduct, and later refused to sign bond for his release. Handcuffed to Gregory is James Sanders, man at right is not identified
Comedian Dick Gregory (white suit-center) leaves wagon that brought him from House of Correction for court appearance here. Gregory was arrested August 12 during demonstration protesting construction of mobile classroom site. He was charged with disorderly conduct, and later refused to sign bond for his release. Handcuffed to Gregory is James Sanders, man at right is not identified
Date: August 23, 1963
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.284
Mr. Bouncewell and His Colleagues 'Trying it On'
Mr. Bouncewell and His Colleagues 'Trying it On'
John Leech
Date: Pulb. Janaury, 1841
Medium: Etching and mezzotint on paper
Object number: 1983.86
Vietnam Shepard: Carrying a walking stick over his shoulder and his M16 rifle in his hand, a soldier of the U.S. 25th Infantry Division herds a group of Vietnamese families to a helicopter landing zone for interrogation. The Vietnamese were rounded up after a brief firefight at a village near Duc Pho, about 325 miles north of Saigon, during a search and clear operation
Vietnam Shepard: Carrying a walking stick over his shoulder and his M16 rifle in his hand, a soldier of the U.S. 25th Infantry Division herds a group of Vietnamese families to a helicopter landing zone for interrogation. The Vietnamese were rounded up after a brief firefight at a village near Duc Pho, about 325 miles north of Saigon, during a search and clear operation
Unknown artist
Date: August 1, 1967
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2023.12.188